Kindergarten�at�Lindop School�

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Our Goals

1. To help the whole child grow:

• Socially
• Emotionally
• Academically

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2. To provide a safe and positive learning environment that is:

• Child friendly
• Language rich
• Family oriented

School begins at 8:25!�The children can enter our school at 8:15. Meet us by door I!

Calendar

Activities include: days of the week, months in a year, seasons, patterning, counting, graphing, telling time, money, adding, phonemic awareness, sight words, and sentence building.

Reading – Whole Group

Includes : read-alouds, shared reading, and silent reading.

We respond to our reading!

Language Activities

• Finger Plays
• Songs
• Movement
• Vocabulary development
• Making books

We attend one or two special classes each day.

Special classes are:

Art

Music

Gym

Library

Spanish

We go to the computer lab to work on Lexia Core 5 Program.

Journal Writing

Focuses on phonetic spelling and sentence structure.

Literacy Centers

Centers that focus on letter recognition, word structure, writing words, and making words.

We eat lunch, then…

everyone enjoys recess!

Science

• Plants
• Animals
• Earth
• Weather

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Social Studies

• Our Classroom
• Our Neighborhood
• Identity Awareness includes Character Counts
• Seasons

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Math

We use many hands-on manipulatives

and the promethean board

We work on CGI Problems.

We learn addition and subtraction by

playing math games!

Guided Reading – Small Groups

Children learn the skills and reading strategies they need while reading books that are at their own instructional reading level.

What are the other children doing during guided reading?

Children independently enjoy

various activities.

Learning Centers

Puzzle Center

Making Words and Fishing Center

Math Center

Reading CVC Words Center

Computer Center

Promethean Board Center

Community Center

We have many assemblies throughout the year.

Awards Assembly

Storytelling Assembly

We go on �field trips. �

We celebrate the �100^th Day of School

These are some projects….

made from 100 things.

We even eat 100 pieces of food!

Kindergarten Tea

• We celebrate the end of the year with a Kindergarten Tea.
• Family members are invited to come in the afternoon.
• We sing a few songs, have Reader’s Theatre passages, and show our guest(s) some work that we have completed during our year in Kindergarten.
• We present awards.
• Of course, tea and cookies are served!

Children are dismissed at 3:30 p.m.

at door L.�

Useful Suggestions

learn how to tie his/her shoes. Untied shoes can

be dangerous to your child, as well as others.

Have your child:

Please

label

all

clothing!

Useful Suggestions

Have your child dress for the weather!

The children go outside if it is 26 degrees or above!

Useful Suggestions

Our classrooms can seem cold to your child!

Have your child keep a sweater or sweatshirt in his/her backpack.

We look forward to seeing you in August!